Why pop music is obsessed with this one note
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@ianhebert91 3 жыл бұрын
I was not prepared to receive that much "D" in 8 minutes.
@tartar1016 3 жыл бұрын
That's what she said
@thefallenfighters 3 жыл бұрын
That’s what she said
@headphonezmusic1727 3 жыл бұрын
you have 69 likes on this comment
@paballoleballo9101 3 жыл бұрын
Worse on weekends
@emiliodelbozo3155 3 жыл бұрын
That's what she said
@quinlanhogan7543 3 жыл бұрын
For sale: Lumi MIDI keyboard, lightly used. D key no longer works
@prodbyapollo_ 3 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@stephydae 3 жыл бұрын
LOL 😂 good one..
@Spaced1sco 3 жыл бұрын
New Sale!: Lumi keyboard with only D key all others are optional.
@jobanbrar92 3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@gammergames3322 3 жыл бұрын
@@Spaced1sco weekend: I'm listening
@sreesanthsasidharan3841 3 жыл бұрын
The supertonic is that one kid who hangs out with every group in school.
@Fayevalentina541 2 жыл бұрын
Me.😂
@supersucks 2 жыл бұрын
im that kid lol
@Jernofenz 2 жыл бұрын
i m tht lmaooo
@impfromdoom9137 2 жыл бұрын
me
@thegameowl11 2 жыл бұрын
Me lmao
@Goddot 3 жыл бұрын
I found pop music pretty one-note, I didn't expect to be THIS right
@JoE_Songs Жыл бұрын
well actually real pop music was never about one note - until 10-12 years ago...
@snowjix 11 ай бұрын
@@JoE_Songs real pop music? What does that even mean?
@multisplace3783 10 ай бұрын
That must be partly why I prefer older music. They don't hang on one note a bunch in older songs.
@quifesco3635 10 ай бұрын
he's saying pop music before this time was better and more varying whereas nowadays popular stuff is a lot of the same thing. hes somewhat right, i mean you used to see key changes or experimentation with indian instruments in Beatles songs. Also, jazz was pop music. basically the guy is saying modern popular music is oversaturated.
@TechBoxNorth 3 жыл бұрын
"Hey catchy tune, what music software did you use?" "Microsoft OneNote"
@KuroHebi 3 жыл бұрын
I don't get it.
@samszotkowski 3 жыл бұрын
@@KuroHebi one note
@KuroHebi 3 жыл бұрын
@@samszotkowski I get it, now.
@NvincibleIronMan 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤓👍👍
@KuroHebi 3 жыл бұрын
@@NvincibleIronMan that is actually a great joke, for real.
@sanes4402 3 жыл бұрын
"You know that The Weekend song that goes like D D D D D D D D D C?" "Which one"
@statomic 3 жыл бұрын
This is funny cuz all of them ahahhahahahaha
@BBAACKE 3 жыл бұрын
Lolol
@randommemeclone1021 3 жыл бұрын
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
@dragringer1480 3 жыл бұрын
Blinding lights?
@craftze_ro5734 3 жыл бұрын
@@dragringer1480 no
@pak009 3 жыл бұрын
Take a shot of any alcoholic drink everytime Katy Perry's "Never Really Over" hits the D note.
@_Iscream 3 жыл бұрын
You’d die, even if it was beer.
@servvo 3 жыл бұрын
aka chug
@prismarinestars7471 3 жыл бұрын
death
@hanakosan4404 3 жыл бұрын
I came at that part of the video as I read this comment
@sajeewanrai 3 жыл бұрын
@@_Iscream You would die even if it's water
@Cry_ct 3 жыл бұрын
No wonder so many pop songs fit so well with Megalovania, Megalovania also is played with D
@alteredanimesh 2 жыл бұрын
now this one is a masterpiece
@huldanoren951 2 жыл бұрын
@@alteredanimesh It is a proven fact that it is impossible to make Megalovania sound bad
@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 Жыл бұрын
megalovania is an awful melody, it can't be worse
@Wazzen563 7 ай бұрын
@@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 ok, one guy
@fedegwagwa 3 жыл бұрын
I got perfect pitch for the D note after this video
@tl1882 3 жыл бұрын
i already did from megalovania
@hridinsbiju9023 3 жыл бұрын
True
@fabricioaf89 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@chrrive 3 жыл бұрын
same:)
@ph4n7om36 3 жыл бұрын
Ick
@TantuBeats 3 жыл бұрын
aaaand there goes the monetization of this video
@kabehhhh 3 жыл бұрын
umg having a party right now
@kaimundo 3 жыл бұрын
ik was depressief en toen deed ik niet zo lief
@enzomolina1066 3 жыл бұрын
IIIIIITS TAAAAN TUUUU
@charlieroush3402 3 жыл бұрын
Definitely
@kingofdoodoo1877 3 жыл бұрын
No cuz the songs are on c major
@Kieran_Davey 3 жыл бұрын
Record Label: "So, what makes you think you can break into the pop industry?" Me: "This little melody is in C-Major." *presses the D key* Record Label: "Well, that's not really special. Everyone does tha-" Me: *presses it again* Record Label: "Here's a pen. Sign here."
@litterbox0192 Жыл бұрын
_proceeds to press it again but one octave up, and then an A key on the original octave_
@marshed0mallow Жыл бұрын
@@litterbox0192 Ab G F D F G
@clipPRmusic 10 ай бұрын
@@marshed0mallow sans?
@Smuckeroni 4 ай бұрын
@@clipPRmusicsans!
@anti64 2 жыл бұрын
This really shows you how important rhythm is to make your melody unique
@scrofol1634 3 жыл бұрын
never want to hear a d-note on piano ever again
@dmtinyhut 3 жыл бұрын
megalovania starts
3 жыл бұрын
It's not always a D in the original songs. Huang has transposed all the songs to C major in this video, including pitch adjustment of the original clips that he uses.
@rserg3789 3 жыл бұрын
Same bruh 😆
@TXLogic 3 жыл бұрын
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey I think you’re kind of making Scrofol’s point... :-)
@gitsurfer27 3 жыл бұрын
I can still hear it 10 minutes after the video ended...i think its part of me now.
@edugui99999 3 жыл бұрын
Me: plays D key KZfaq: copyright Me: Bankrupt
@LYN4X 3 жыл бұрын
LMAO underrated joke
@whoslaysee 3 жыл бұрын
lol nice one 😂
@iLLStaticProductionsBeats 2 жыл бұрын
bawahaahahaha you won the internet today sir
@robertmahaney6831 2 жыл бұрын
I got mine for an unpublished video.
@aadhiseshandc7260 2 жыл бұрын
Yeeee
@brykietosky7328 3 жыл бұрын
Alt title: "How to write a pop song in 5-10 minutes!"
@AURESHION 3 жыл бұрын
this explains my constant deja-vu moments at work (pop-radio)
@mosley3485 2 жыл бұрын
More to do with the fact that pop music is literally engineered to sound familiar, I think.
@BarafuAlbino 3 жыл бұрын
Theory: 36 second. Andrew hitting the same key: 8 minutes.
@bobdole7127 3 жыл бұрын
...And proving how unoriginal most modern pop music is today for the duration.
@beatsxlucas8021 3 жыл бұрын
Bob Dole yeh for sure. It’s missing authentic emotion and melody writing
@emberleona6671 3 жыл бұрын
No wonder I hate pop music nowadays email me if you wanna hear a song idea emberleona2020@gmail.com
@brankol.4563 3 жыл бұрын
I skipped all the examples asking myself if there's more to come... But no
@beatsxlucas8021 3 жыл бұрын
Ember Leona yo u wanna collab? I make deep house/ pop stuff if u wanna work together :)
@anbudamodaran4162 3 жыл бұрын
Alternate title: Confusing the copyright claim system
@DFPercush 3 жыл бұрын
lol... I think as long as it's less than 5 seconds it's fine, don't quote me on that.
@iplaysdrums 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I guess if it's pitch shifted down a fifth the software's going to have a hard time recognizing it.
@agentofchaos2901 3 жыл бұрын
@@DFPercush i can i will
@DFPercush 3 жыл бұрын
@@agentofchaos2901 ... but you didn't
@G60syncro 3 жыл бұрын
@@iplaysdrums If I hammer a bunch of D's on the keyboard for more than 5 seconds, it might get flagged though... right??!?
@TarousDT 3 жыл бұрын
Now I just want to hear a song that is not all D's.
@Taobyby 3 жыл бұрын
Bach to Pachelbel "You have too much D" Weekend: "Hold my beer"
@munksterrr7845 3 жыл бұрын
Now I want a music themed bar with a drink called "supertonic"
@JimmiCottam 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah but that drink will only contain two ingredients Root beer and tonic water
@ZakMeow 3 жыл бұрын
@@JimmiCottam Clever! I Lol'd
@seanfromtheyukon 3 жыл бұрын
And all the songs are transposed to the same key so when you leave the supersonic just resonates in your brain
@pieflower6419 3 жыл бұрын
I'd go
@Gamer-uf1kl 3 жыл бұрын
(D)rink
@swordierre9341 3 жыл бұрын
When I was little I must've somehow figured this out, because i spammed that D and thought i was a song writing prodigy.
@DrRadio155 3 жыл бұрын
You still have chance! :D
@pieflower6419 3 жыл бұрын
I tried to play pop songs in music and thought I was doing something wrong just spamming D
@Metamerist625 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah well it turns out that every pop musician working from 2015 onwards thinks the same XD
@dancershan 2 жыл бұрын
I still have not outgrown that ...
@beaverronald4046 3 жыл бұрын
The note D just makes megalovania play in my head
@sarveshram 3 жыл бұрын
Now that I think of it, Blinding Lights starts with the supertonic note
@DafterHindi 3 жыл бұрын
I love how Andrew knew this wasn't gonna be monetized, so he used all the songs he could
@bradley5800 3 жыл бұрын
I mean a lot of them are in a different key?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@EliRickard 3 жыл бұрын
f4de KZfaq detects key changes regardless
@bradley5800 3 жыл бұрын
@@EliRickard frick
@quariusmusic 3 жыл бұрын
But I see no copyright claims by their respective labels
@quariusmusic 3 жыл бұрын
@@DafterHindi i think its andrew huang thats why..😂... because i have seen other KZfaqrs being very cautious, they don't play the track ,they dont take any risks.
@Malinda 3 жыл бұрын
Alternate title: Andrew Huang Exposes The Weekend
@cdigames 3 жыл бұрын
Hell, on the album Starboy, The Weekend calls out other people for 'stealing' his trick, but acknowledges that it's super simple and easy to get along with.
@exiliate17 3 жыл бұрын
Hi malinda 😄
@kamaalthewanza 3 жыл бұрын
@@cdigames 😂😂
@kamaalthewanza 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@janbonne 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if he was like this back during his shoe gaze days
@kangazkorva5674 3 жыл бұрын
1:05 that filing when you hear “si major” but he plays “do”... and realise he means “C major” :D
@juanwehinger4457 3 жыл бұрын
Jajaja maldito cifrado americano
@JavierB1988 3 жыл бұрын
I was blown away to see how the supertonic easily slides in with all the different chord functions.
@musiqaman 3 жыл бұрын
That keyboard, not having a high C gives me anxiety.
@NateSassoonMusic 3 жыл бұрын
so close yet so far
@DeanLawrence_ftw 3 жыл бұрын
I'm fairly sure it's so you can connect multiple lumi keyboards to make a bigger keyboard
@musiqaman 3 жыл бұрын
Can I just connect an extra C?
@crawbug8932 3 жыл бұрын
@@musiqaman just have a bunch of modular individual black and white keys
@musiqaman 3 жыл бұрын
Matthew someone get LEGO on the phone right now!!!
@DavidPuckArtist 3 жыл бұрын
This was the most intelligent way to throw shade at the entire pop music industry I’ve ever seen 😂
@CaveyMoth 3 жыл бұрын
I knew that modern pop music was monotonous and repetitive. But I didn't know there was so much reliance on one single note. Yikes!
@TheBrickLot 3 жыл бұрын
@@CaveyMoth ikr. crazy
@bmxkamikazee 3 жыл бұрын
@@CaveyMoth it's not quite that simple. one could make the same argument for the tonic (first scale degree) for all of classical music. one could make the same argument for the dominant in a lot of eras. andrew is playing all these songs in c, but the supertonic is only d in c major, which further makes it seem simpler than it is. if anything the use of the supertonic as a note to bass melodies on actually adds to the complexity of music as a whole because it wasn't always so common to do this. another method explored.
@eo4295 3 жыл бұрын
@@bmxkamikazee I’m pretty sure classical music doesn’t repeat the same 4 chords over and over and over again throughout the whole piece lol
@jpabcede5016 3 жыл бұрын
@@eo4295 I believe you've heard of Pachelbel's "Canon in D" and Ravel's "Bolero".
@user-pn3pu1ll9k 2 жыл бұрын
At this point KZfaq has taught me that modern pop music have the four chords, the supertonic, the millenium hoot, bunch of trendy beats and sound effects and the tendency to have less melody. Now i wonder how does it manage to produse new different stuff at all! Also it would be interesting to compare those typical fitures with ones from privious decades.
@gpoop23 2 жыл бұрын
I recently started working on an album consisting of instrumental covers of pop songs and it's really helped me realize how simple a lot of my favourite melodies are when you strip away all the lyrics and production. It was actually sometimes pretty disappointing to realize that this hook that always gets stuck in my head really only consists of like three notes.
@henrikpetersson3463 8 ай бұрын
Often it's rhythm and harmonics that makes it special.
@xmortimorxmortimorx 3 жыл бұрын
a few people in the comments missing the point. he's not saying its the D note. he's saying its the supertonic in the given scale. he clearly explained that he was going to transpose all his examples to the same scale for comparison. he transposed them to the C scale and the supertonic in the C scale is the D note. if he would of transposed them to the D scale then it would of been an E note that he was playing since in the scale of D the supertonic is the E note. and so on and so on for every other scale. Edit: (this is just to help those who might be new to music theory and might be a little lost.)
@coolpoolb 3 жыл бұрын
actually- it is you missing the point! the songs are NOT all transposed to the key of c. so the continuous orange (or d) note represents different degrees of the scale in each of the songs. in essence- the songs 'sound' like they are in the same key because of the continuous d (or orange) note, but in fact they are in different keys, and therefore not an illustration of the supertonic; it's no more than an aural illusion.
@xmortimorxmortimorx 3 жыл бұрын
0:35 there you go genius!
@coolpoolb 3 жыл бұрын
@@xmortimorxmortimorx haha dude. USE YOUR EARS! get out a keyboard, guitar- don't take his word for it OR mine. anyone with a decent pair of ears can hear that the tracks are modulating into different (relative) keys and do NOT stay in the same key as he claims. (and thanks for calling me a genius :-P )
@James-im2ip 3 жыл бұрын
@@coolpoolb he doesn't transpose the song, but he does transpose what he's playing. the song and what he's playing aren't always in the same key.
@christowers7307 3 жыл бұрын
@@coolpoolb I think you need this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNFmnbmdlsylnmQ.html
@BrothersandCoFilms 3 жыл бұрын
The Weekends been pretty quiet since this dropped.
@jasperlawson6315 3 жыл бұрын
Thank God..... If only it could last forever
@lukeconnellan9008 3 жыл бұрын
@@jasperlawson6315 you said it
@theundeadbowman9824 3 жыл бұрын
Press F to pay respects (and not D)
@benjclarke3010 3 жыл бұрын
He's looking for a new note.
@vsnnyc721 3 жыл бұрын
The Weeknd*
@MikaelMikaelMikael Жыл бұрын
That Katy Perry song at least uses the 7th and the 4th note once each, and what a breath of fresh air it was to hear them after first listening to the barrage of the super tonic sprinkled with the same few pentatonic notes.
@kindredspirit9703 3 жыл бұрын
Pop artists have to be messing with us at this point
@010203109 3 жыл бұрын
A lot of them just sound good enough singing and have the connections to be the person the pros in the studio are ordered to make sound amazing in post, I suspect. There's so much you can do with quality hardware and software these days that no one has to truly be one the best singers in honed talent or even have a great raw style; to sound great on the radio.
@pcfllms 3 жыл бұрын
After hearing D repeating over and over, I think I can identify a D flawlessly.
@user-hd4wf5gq8r 3 жыл бұрын
Can you still now?
@elimg.3684 3 жыл бұрын
In relation to another note (of which you know what not it is) maybe, but unless you have absolute pitch, its gonna be tough...
@drphdmd7064 3 жыл бұрын
All you really need to learn is one note by ear, and memorize how the intervals move. Then you are set.
@stephenmitchell3191 3 жыл бұрын
give it 10 minutes
@aedile2819 3 жыл бұрын
your mom can identify this D
@elishscott 3 жыл бұрын
The Weeknd's name should be "D Weeknd"
@radorigami 3 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh You’re right
@prometheus6474 3 жыл бұрын
except it's the supertonic
@notsogreatsword1607 3 жыл бұрын
Except its only D for the video. Music doesn't work like that. The supertonic refers to a specific distance from the root note. It's about intervalic relationships not specific notes. This concept is not complicated once you understand the underlying principle. You're misleading people by saying it has anything to do with the D note.
@elishscott 3 жыл бұрын
@@frag4007 exactly, people these days 🤦🏻♂️ can’t seem to take a joke.
@dolphinberserk 3 жыл бұрын
Okay then, let's make it "Supertonic Weekend" There's a song in that. Bagsed it!
@arvid2644 3 жыл бұрын
Me *hitting the supertonic on the piano in the music lessons*: im a musical genius now
@shikiikomori 3 жыл бұрын
D there, now im a master composer
@sharoncastillo2411 2 жыл бұрын
comedy
@truecuckoo 3 жыл бұрын
Andrew Huang, also known as the Supertonic Slayer 🗡
@-_-shakezula 3 жыл бұрын
cuckoo!
@gregvsmj 3 жыл бұрын
Can’t here a D for one week now..
@saedt 3 жыл бұрын
TING TING TING TING TING TING
@ceemoon8556 3 жыл бұрын
They called him... the Supertonic Slayer. (The Only Thing They Fear is You ensues)
@woodenhoe 3 жыл бұрын
Supertonic Slayer Also Slayer: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
@DJBassBoomBottom 3 жыл бұрын
Makes sense why my classically trained dad thinks people "talk-sing" in pop songs.
@ldhdjzjjaklzjdbd6610 3 жыл бұрын
@@activitine62 I disagree, I don’t think they are failing, some of them are, and some of it is good, it’s just a different style
@artschiloyan9101 3 жыл бұрын
@@activitine62 few artists like Bruno Mars for example are nailing it. Most of them aren't🤣
@rickf6375 3 жыл бұрын
You don't have to be classically trained to realize they're not singing but talk-singing
@user-ee7sv2xw4w 3 жыл бұрын
ah pop just sounded boring to people who practice classical music.
@ADeeSHUPA 3 жыл бұрын
@@user-ee7sv2xw4w 古翼庭
@martingibbs8972 3 жыл бұрын
You’ve absolutely nailed it. I listen to pop music radio and wonder why I get bored within a minute. It’s the supersonic! I didn’t realise until you showed it with so many examples!
@WeAreROLI 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for using LUMI Keys in the vid 🙏🙏🙏
@JAL_EDM 2 жыл бұрын
When the official ROLI channel gets ignored :(
@fluffartistt 3 жыл бұрын
"Let me show you a few songs to see how big the supertonic has become." *gets ad with a song where the main note is LITERALLY D*
@notchieuwu 3 жыл бұрын
laughs in adblocker
@rtxf 3 жыл бұрын
@Salim Sivaad were those transposed? They all sounded pretty natural in c
@Nightmoore 3 жыл бұрын
@@rtxf Yeah, he said he transposed them all. But it totally doesn't matter. You can pick ANY key, and all the notes in the new scale are the exact same distance from each other. You can take any song in a major key and transpose it to 12 different major keys, and it's going to sound the same. It may be way harder to sing if it's outside the power range for the vocalist, but for all practical purposes, it's exactly the same.
@rtxf 3 жыл бұрын
@@Nightmoore missed him say they were transposed, but I know how theory works :) thanks for explaining it for the next guy to read this tho.
@noa_1104 3 жыл бұрын
Robbert Then it should not come as a surprise they’d all sound perfectly natural, right? You can’t even tell...well, unless you have perfect pitch, that is?
@szeth14 3 жыл бұрын
I mean, I wasn't aware of it before, and now I probably can't stop hearing it.
@rwrunning1813 3 жыл бұрын
Oh... Oh no... This is going to make pop music even harder to listen to...
@haslo_ 3 жыл бұрын
@@rwrunning1813 Not possible, is it?
@chriszanf 3 жыл бұрын
I was aware of it (that a lot of pop music was sounding similar) but not why.
@zipperozicvideodump 3 жыл бұрын
this will single-handedly ruin everything
@LukezyM 3 жыл бұрын
What a big pile of orange shit this was. Meaning the pop music of today’s.
@zeroblackstar 2 жыл бұрын
Watching this video has improved my pitch recognition for D by about 4000%
@thedopeassshow7795 2 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate how your videos just go straight into the meat of it. Very underrated thing that.
@MrReedMiester 3 жыл бұрын
I feel like I learned an entire "pop music's formula" type of course that gets advertised on KZfaq so much, for free.
@BradsGonnaPlay 3 жыл бұрын
seriously, this seems like any basic musician could produce “world class hits” using nothing but samples, loops, and 1 note with 4 ornament notes
@harshvardhandewangan3997 3 жыл бұрын
@@BradsGonnaPlay Looks like classicalness in modern music is required!
@jeanpillet-conery2479 3 жыл бұрын
BradsGonnaPlay no that’s not how it works. The difficulty is to make interesting melodies that are simple and easy to grasp. You need balance in your song, between repetition and variation. Your melodies need small melodic fragments that are recycled through the song without feeling too repetitive. You also need 1-2 hooks, a new aspect/idea + a perfect use phonetics. It is hard to create a pop hit today, especially with the number of bad music there is out there
@stevenwatson9678 3 жыл бұрын
@@jeanpillet-conery2479 bro that's called writing a basic song, it sure as hell isn't easy but very underwhelming
@stegokitty 3 жыл бұрын
This is horrifying. Now I've got that note stuck in my head -- like when you hear a car alarm going on and on and on, and then it finally gets shut off, but your brain keeps hearing it "in the distance". I hope I'm not up all night with D playing on a loop.
@catpoke9557 3 жыл бұрын
...Yeah, to make matters worse I'm getting (and playing) my first instrument tomorrow. Now I'm just going to have one note in my mind the whole time. Wonderful
@matthewdemasi1363 3 жыл бұрын
When you said "car alarm" it triggered this musical memory: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrxnoauJl7iwmoU.html
@kirill3032 3 жыл бұрын
Can't stop thinking about D huh?
@jennmichelle2 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!!!
@peepsiee 3 жыл бұрын
this video made me realise that get lucky in C major is a bop
@seansalo5117 3 жыл бұрын
I think the lesson is actually just that Get Lucky is a bop.
@peepsiee 3 жыл бұрын
@@seansalo5117 lesson learnt
@alecrechtiene558 Жыл бұрын
I also believe it has kind of an unresolved sound, but not to the point that we are begging to go back to tonic. Pop music in the past few decades has been very driven and propels forward. In conclusion, I feel the supertonic gives the since that we are driving forward or gliding just above the ground. Edit: supertonic, not supersonic. Typo😆
@karol_k 3 жыл бұрын
Musicians be like: D D D D D D D D D D D D C D
@matejmihelec3439 3 жыл бұрын
RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE
@bennybooboobear3940 3 жыл бұрын
Wrong. He transposed them to c major. The note that’s played over and over is the SUPERTONIC, the second note in the scale, rather than D.
@spyrix4750 3 жыл бұрын
@@bennybooboobear3940 musicians be like: SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC TONIC SUPERTONIC
@muffinszss 3 жыл бұрын
@@spyrix4750 LMAO
@tonyroman6991 3 жыл бұрын
There is one impostor among us
@ryanjackson5437 3 жыл бұрын
Turns out pop music’s favorite color is orange-coral.
@Johnny_T779 3 жыл бұрын
... And cotton - candy flavoured! Make you sick when you have too much of it.
@KevinAllOver 3 жыл бұрын
Pantone Color of the Year 2019 was Living Coral. Coincidence?
@SonOfAFridge_ 3 жыл бұрын
@@tradinglifedf5200 wha
@houndermagnum5918 3 жыл бұрын
might be interesting to see what colour a person with synesthesia sees when listening to the D note!
@internetexplorerchan2697 3 жыл бұрын
@@houndermagnum5918 mine is mint green beacuse its fresh to listen.
@jomesias 2 жыл бұрын
Never knew the major 2nd was the sound I was hearing!! Super interesting the root and 5th is single handedly resposible for rock and metal!! And now pop Major 2nd
@petter2849 Жыл бұрын
You nailed it Andrew. Pop music will be listened to in a very different way after watching this video.
@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 Жыл бұрын
painful way
@gost7821 3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate how you explain why the note is popular (and acknowledge that it’s over-used) without taking the easy route of then going “so it’s always lazy to use it and artists/producers who use it are untalented” like some people in these comments
@ShirubaGin 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Complaining about pop music using the supertonic a lot is like complaining about blues using the blue note a lot.
@tsg_frank5829 3 жыл бұрын
Somebody gets it
@1Tako1 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, agree. Pop isn't my favorite genre but I wish people wouldn't bash on it so much.
@holidaycomplex 3 жыл бұрын
there are only seven notes in a scale so yea. also people saying that this is why pop all sounds the same are forgetting that tamber and arrangement can play a bigger role than harmonic composition. it's HOW you express those notes rather than the notes themselves. the reason why pop all sounds the same isn't really because of the super-tonic, although it does have a role to play.
@nycolleamendez5608 3 жыл бұрын
Those comments make me feel tire Is like in mu country people feeling superior just because they hear rock not regueton (i personally don't hear regueton but people get to fixated that people who hear this genre are losers at everything, really toxic) I know those are opinion But is just that a opinion Most of those comments ooze superiority complex
@BadLipReading 3 жыл бұрын
Well done
@dyray732 3 жыл бұрын
We live in a world where Bad Lip Reading only gets 6 likes in 24 minutes.
@just-a-me1168 3 жыл бұрын
@@dyray732 we live in a world where Bad Lip Reading only gets 37 likes in 3 hours.
@elinaylor6861 3 жыл бұрын
We live in a world
@BrandonYates 3 жыл бұрын
was just wondering about you guys the other day. you been doing well?
@IdoBerg 3 жыл бұрын
holy shittt i wish u will comment in 1 of my videos too xD
@pepegoodguy2837 3 жыл бұрын
0:44 that was soo smooth
@NovaAge 3 жыл бұрын
Everybody: actually on-topic Me: why tf does he look like he is made out of pure fucking silica?
@rubyhillman1859 2 жыл бұрын
Cause he is duh
@scarybarry1323 3 жыл бұрын
“What do you have?!” A * supertonic *! “NO!”
@Emmi2002-_- 3 жыл бұрын
Is it sharp or flat?
@bitwise_demon 3 жыл бұрын
Once I tried to pick melodies by ear and realised that i was playing mostly one note when hearing the lyrics, now I know why.
@SeekerGoldstone 3 жыл бұрын
I'm an amateur musician and I take requests. 9 times out of 10, when someone asks if I can play a current song from the radio, the answer is "Technically yes, but you don't want me to."
@LL-tr5et 3 жыл бұрын
lol same. it's upsetting :p
@LL-tr5et 3 жыл бұрын
i tried to pick roland faunte's song melodies by ear and for such gorgeous tunes they really are simple
@catpoke9557 3 жыл бұрын
@@SeekerGoldstone Yeah it sounds like most of these songs aren't going to sound good when converted to basically any instrument.
@williamcompitello2302 9 ай бұрын
The super tonic is the Dorian mode. This mode has amazing properties that no other mode in the Major scale has. It's symmetric, repetitive with the min. 3/maj. 3 pattern, and it's probably the most versatile mode ever.
@LohPro 6 ай бұрын
Lydian is considered by some the neighbor, or relative, of dorian (ie; neither have "avoid" notes) Together, they are the only two modes (keys) of the Major scale that have, as their character (modal) tone, the leading-tone of the parent scale. All other modes have the subdominant of the parent Major scale. Ionian, phrygian, Mixolydian, aeolian & locrian= scale degree [4] dorian & Lydian= scale degree [7] in a Major scale, scale degrees [4] & [7] make up the tritone.
@SilverTheFlame 3 жыл бұрын
This video is incredible. Andrew, you are doing so much great work!
@b1na276 3 жыл бұрын
never underestimate the power of re
@hiimsarahtt 3 жыл бұрын
Lolllll
@SAagreedSA 3 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@julianwarren8059 3 жыл бұрын
😂
@jakekideewanihayemainmarja832 3 жыл бұрын
You learn indian classical???
@pianoif 3 жыл бұрын
the power of D
@archermcclain6587 3 жыл бұрын
Alternate title: why pop music is obsessed with being generally monotonous
@KingJellyfishII 3 жыл бұрын
Yep the melody is almost always super boring, of course my opinion but I like a melody that you can play and it sounds good even on its own.
@ComposerAdamWhite 3 жыл бұрын
It makes sense. Everything is going to lowest common denominator. Find the thing that NOBODY finds offensive in any situation, and overuse it.
@FLH3official 3 жыл бұрын
or "How pop kills music"
@brickalmonds3531 3 жыл бұрын
its more that pop music is terrified of any musical tension
@fernwehn5925 3 жыл бұрын
Vacuous minds feed off vacuous music. Pop is the sonic equivalent of fast food.
@SzilviaVirag 2 жыл бұрын
Good observation! It explains why I got bored of music last year and thought all the new stuff sounded the same!
@timk4829 3 жыл бұрын
Best pop music theory input I've had in a long time. Thanks, man!
@RadenWA 3 жыл бұрын
Pop Music then : Only 3 chords Pop Music now : _Only one note_ _It's evolving, just backwards_
@woodenhoe 3 жыл бұрын
so it's *gnivlove*
@themessenger8334 3 жыл бұрын
So, devolving then.
@enrott8560 3 жыл бұрын
pop music back in mozart and bach time... 20, 000 notes.
@SAM-yq2lm 3 жыл бұрын
🤩🤩😂🤩😂😂😂🤩😂😂🤩😂🤩😂🤩🤩🤩 Nailed it
@gillianomotoso328 3 жыл бұрын
This is actually more complex. The song's progression starts in a suspended minor harmony and finds its way occasionally back home
@MuffinTunes 3 жыл бұрын
As an American Music History instructor, this is absolutely something that will help me highlight were we currently are at the end of the semester. Please know I'll be using this video to present to my courses for educational purposes as non of the elective students understand music theory, you explained this VERY well. 5/5 Muffintastic starts, just subscribed for more!
@jacoblane6301 3 жыл бұрын
@@arcadepiano nobody asked
@DFPercush 3 жыл бұрын
@@arcadepiano That's gotta be the most toxic thing I've read all day, good job. Personal slights, ideological rejection, lack of positive alternative, demeaning metaphors... It actually invokes a sense of perverse admiration at the sheer concentration of vitriol, like a work of art that you despise but can't look away from.
@seabassthegamer6644 3 жыл бұрын
@@arcadepiano Well, if your list of EVERY CHORD IN THE HISTORY OF EVER is so great, why don't you try using it to teach us _pitiful ignorants?_
@gabrielcabello9227 3 жыл бұрын
Inventor Maybe you wouldn’t sound as much of a loser if you actually shared your “amazing” knowledge in a positive manner instead of using that knowledge to be a pretentious prick.
@seabassthegamer6644 3 жыл бұрын
@@arcadepiano You know what? I'll give you some benefit of the doubt. And some advice on how to get some traction going, hopefully both in attention and in money. Start by offering some small slivers of your knowledge. I noticed that you have a video showing your favorite chord, and some details about that chord in the description. I would suggest making a short video along the lines of "This is my favorite chord." (chord plays) "This chord can do (thing) when paired with (some other chords), like in (example piece)" (relavant part of example piece plays) "It does this because (some list of reasons)." And so on, with more things the chord can do and more examples of those things. Do this with a few other chords (not the entire list, though, obviously). Additionally, put some music out into the world. People will know you know what you're doing if you show that you can make good music. To reiterate, don't put your whole portfolio out there for free, but do show some of your works. Maybe put your music on a site like bandcamp, where listeners can donate money or (if you're charging money) pay extra if they really like your music. Doing these things will show people that you know what you're talking about, which makes them more likely to pay for special teaching services or further music tracks. Most importantly, drop the pretentious attitude. No matter how legitimately good you are, nobody will want to listen to what you have to say if you constantly insult them.
@quentinjohnston5419 2 жыл бұрын
I also find the sixth note of a scale to be very popular in pop music since it also doesn't clash with any chord on the scale degree. It serves a very similar purpose to the supertonic since the submediant (the 6th) generally wants to resolve down to the dominant just like the supertonic generally wants to resolve down to the tonic.
@moises8war 3 жыл бұрын
Andrew, you the best! I love your content! I need to get better at identifying notes when listening to songs. This definitely helped
@andrasfogarasi5014 3 жыл бұрын
I feel like the ghost writers are trying to send a message or something.
@genewitch 3 жыл бұрын
if i can find the midi files for any of these i'll extract just the supertonics and run it through a CW (Morse code) decoder. could be a grey code, too, i guess.
@augstsh 3 жыл бұрын
they like d
@an_annoying_cat 3 жыл бұрын
it stands for deez nuts
@genewitch 3 жыл бұрын
@@an_annoying_cat no. Yeah. We get it.
@lifelover69 3 жыл бұрын
the message is "DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD"
@mackflynt6094 3 жыл бұрын
"Also sidechain compression." That had me dying of laughter idk why
@Cyphule 3 жыл бұрын
A D D S O M E R E V E R B
@colour_bloo 3 жыл бұрын
I live for sidechain. It makes everything just automatically sound better. Have a monotone subbass? Sidechain. Not enough room for your lead? Sidechain. Wife left you... well, then you probably have other issues to deal with, at least you can cheer yourself up by putting dat sidechain on your mix 😎
@xafraskrazos630 3 жыл бұрын
Nobody's talking about OTT ? :o
@portemanteau3802 3 жыл бұрын
Bad bass playing? SIDECHAIN!
@samprock 3 жыл бұрын
LOL we all guilty of it :)
@wardomelon7873 3 жыл бұрын
How come I feel like it’s more fun in never really over than it is in any weeknd song?
@jannyoh1056 3 жыл бұрын
you're changing lives with your content man
@petergaley314 3 жыл бұрын
When you have to pay to unlock more than one note on your autotune plugin
@ChaosRayZero 3 жыл бұрын
So far the first comment today to make me _actually laugh out loud!_ 😄👍
@CaptainJohn 3 жыл бұрын
@@ChaosRayZero Same!
@jonathangardner6688 3 жыл бұрын
@@ChaosRayZero same lol
@eli.muskett8645 3 жыл бұрын
I like your profile picture✌️
@DestrolioOnline 3 жыл бұрын
"i'm gonna play a subdominant melody over a third degree chord". why does this feel like a threat?
@accieT 3 жыл бұрын
DestrolioOnline because it is. its a threat to your eardrums
@toobles3 2 жыл бұрын
Wow playing the piano seems SO much easier since everyone only plays one note out of the hundred keys
@ashissiiick9682 3 жыл бұрын
I stopped watching Andrew for a hot minute and I come back and he does theory thursdays now?! I've been missing out!!!
@joninarebekka2966 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if I'll get a perfect pitch sense for the note D after watching this video
@nightski380 3 жыл бұрын
I already have a perfect pitch sense for every note 🤩
@bailey1410 3 жыл бұрын
perfect pitch people never fail to remind u that they have perfect pitch
@nightski380 3 жыл бұрын
@@bailey1410 Yup. I can confirm
@altherebot5593 3 жыл бұрын
Nice 👍
@rodbacon2629 3 жыл бұрын
@@nightski380 I know this is free-beating but i mean... more than half of all people with perfect pitch either 1 : don't ever try to do something with music and 2 : don't even understand anything about music either emotioanlly or theoretically ^^' So i'm not too sure you should be proud of something you're probably not able to use. Also, if you really have perfect pitch, you should be having quite a few problems with your ears (ex : when something is "off pitch" it will tend to annoy people with people perfect pitch.) Lastly, i believe there are quite a few different abilities that are being called perfect pitch, no one ever knows which one they're talking about :')
@tadhg9558 3 жыл бұрын
I'll never get over the insane amount of editing work that goes into Andrews videos that most people just overlook
@slayerficated 3 жыл бұрын
I bet his editor is getting payyd.
@crazy_banana 3 жыл бұрын
0:21 Me: PiNk FlUfFy UnIcOrN dAnCiNg On RaInBoWs(gosh that brings back memories from so long ago-) and also, that beginning(C A C A G) kinda sounded and reminded me of the song The Sign Of The Times by Harry Styles-
@alisha3barrett342 3 жыл бұрын
omg I knew I heard it from somewhere
@MyFictionalChaos 3 жыл бұрын
Im not a musician by any means, but whenever I look up the notes for things ive been noticing this.
@marcc375 3 жыл бұрын
They all should sue each other for copyright infringement.
@ChaosRayZero 3 жыл бұрын
I love it when the profile pic matches the comment! ^_^
@DarkDrai 3 жыл бұрын
You ever have that feeling where you're close to understanding a fundamental truth about music that will revolutionize your future songs, only to realize the mainstream industry has been using it this whole time, and now you have to avoid using it or sound like pop trash?
@galenhoffman8338 3 жыл бұрын
Relatable af bro
@matthall4568 2 жыл бұрын
Man this is so true. Those Weeknd tracks were good examples of the subdominant 4th - not the supertonic, a similar melody trick for minor keys.
@jamesbraendel6806 3 жыл бұрын
@AndrewHuang. This is pure gold. Other topic to explore about emerging pop music is compositionally- how to fit a whole song in 2:00 or less..
@pradeepvincentmusic 3 жыл бұрын
KZfaq: wait wait wait... there are too many songs to indentify and issue a copyright claim!
@masondchong 3 жыл бұрын
Now I’ll only think of that peachy orange color when I hear a supertonic
@stevepinnell453 2 жыл бұрын
Well, that's shed a new light on my approach to writing melodies... when they said keep it simple, I didn't realise they meant THAT simple...! Great video as always thank you Andrew.
@rolandeldridgemusic 2 жыл бұрын
the great little magic trick of this vid is how all the supertonic's of different song are demoed in the same key. I've been tracking this trend for a good while; spot on analysis!
@Danneleet 3 жыл бұрын
And people wonder why alot of people can't stand pop radio music
@simmydimmy 3 жыл бұрын
ikr it all just sounds the same
@jaytrain3692 3 жыл бұрын
i cant, i listen to an incredible amount of music (not trying to sound like a douche) and i cant stand pop or modern reggae.
@RisingSol 3 жыл бұрын
Dude I hate pop radio music with a burning passion
@penguinaka8383 3 жыл бұрын
I’m the 69th like
@shmvon 3 жыл бұрын
Are those two people referring to the same people?
@AlexPies1 3 жыл бұрын
0:20 why is everyone talking about the D key and nobody's talking about Andrew playing Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows not once but TWICE
@landonvincent7974 3 жыл бұрын
it's because he was demonstrating how a song can be transposed to a different key and still be the same song... He did it on purpose
@Andriale 3 жыл бұрын
Landon Vincent it was a joke i believe
@feather6502 3 жыл бұрын
I was looking for someone to mention this lol
@nobody-sv9xo 3 жыл бұрын
I mean he made the song...
@lockyourdoors5886 3 жыл бұрын
SO THAT'S WHAT IT WAS CRAP I COULDN'T REMEMBER
@HitTheRoadMusicStudio 2 жыл бұрын
That's amazing man, thank you so much! I searched for a long a time practical but advanced music theory tutorial and think I finally found it here! You Rock man!
@pazco1539 2 жыл бұрын
5:11 I just love this part, idk y but that really quick part is NIIIIICE.
@oramusic963 3 жыл бұрын
I love how he just gets straight to the point
@themessenger8334 3 жыл бұрын
Made me watch the entire video, despite the clickbaity title, because he went straight in without any bullshit. Good video.
@oramusic963 3 жыл бұрын
@@themessenger8334 yeah exactly
@JerryAnimations 3 жыл бұрын
i ofically cant unhear this note anymore, or stop looking for it in songs
@David-sw3on 2 жыл бұрын
Without sounding pretentious, For approx of 45 years, the "d" was my most chosen always over every other note progression when writing songs ...Love the sound & the diversity! Thanks for bringing this to light.. Great Vid👍😉🇨🇦
@zonkerdoodle1912 Жыл бұрын
Have you tried H tho
@waltergoring8428 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for these vids! Really great stuff.
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